Borepatch

Dataless : You should backup your data. You should have multiple backups of your data. You should have multiple rotating or rolling backups ...

This is pretty skeevy : TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam...

OldNFO has an important post about how Microsoft is moving very aggressively to a 100% online subscription licensing model.  This is import...

And more importantly, which should you not trust?  This post is the fourth in a series on how to make your home network harder to attack.  ...

This post is the third in a series on how to make your home network harder to attack.  Here are links to posts one and two .  Post two intr...

Forget about the Internet and security for a moment - you already own something with a firewall.  Your car has one between the engine and th...

This is the beginning of a new series about what (mostly) non-technical readers can do to lock down their home networks to a decent level of...

For years I've touted (and recommended) Linux , the Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is the heart of Internet servers, Internet rou...

This is big news.  Gartner Group is the largest IT trend analysis firm, used by essentially all large corporations.  They just recommended b...

Yesterday was Apple's turn, today it's Android : Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded...

Walter emails with a question that probably will have broad interest: BP - Long time reader question here: I need to replace my long-in-toot...

The Surveillance State is bringing people together.  In this case Apple (iOS) and Google (Android).  You will now be able to send end-to-end...

If you are at version lower than 128, you need to update Firefox immediately or all sorts of things will break.  The crypto certificate it u...

Apple patched a Zero Day bug that was being actively exploited in the wild.   I'm not a big fan of unannounced updates where I don't...

This is not good : Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure ...

Lots of important security patches are out.

Microsoft has released a fix for a severe vulnerability in this month's Windows Update.  The problem here is that a Bad Guy sending a sp...

Le sigh : Password manager 1Password is warning that all Mac users running versions before 8.10.36 are vulnerable to a bug that allows attac...

If so, you need to replace it right away.  There is a critical vulnerability which allows a Bad Guy to dump user accounts and passwords - ba...

Holy cow, what a nightmare : Microsoft is not giving up on its controversial Windows Recall, though says it will give customers an option to...